EP0050158B1 - Method of making a dam for a communication cable - Google Patents

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EP0050158B1
EP0050158B1 EP81900952A EP81900952A EP0050158B1 EP 0050158 B1 EP0050158 B1 EP 0050158B1 EP 81900952 A EP81900952 A EP 81900952A EP 81900952 A EP81900952 A EP 81900952A EP 0050158 B1 EP0050158 B1 EP 0050158B1
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Seiji Takagi
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Furukawa Electric Co Ltd
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
    • H01B13/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables
    • H01B13/22—Sheathing; Armouring; Screening; Applying other protective layers
    • H01B13/221—Sheathing; Armouring; Screening; Applying other protective layers filling-up interstices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C44/00—Shaping by internal pressure generated in the material, e.g. swelling or foaming ; Producing porous or cellular expanded plastics articles
    • B29C44/02—Shaping by internal pressure generated in the material, e.g. swelling or foaming ; Producing porous or cellular expanded plastics articles for articles of definite length, i.e. discrete articles
    • B29C44/12—Incorporating or moulding on preformed parts, e.g. inserts or reinforcements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
    • H02G1/00—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing or dismantling electric cables or lines
    • H02G1/14—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing or dismantling electric cables or lines for joining or terminating cables
    • H02G1/145—Moulds
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
    • H02G15/00—Cable fittings
    • H02G15/003—Filling materials, e.g. solid or fluid insulation

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  • a multi-conductor sheathed communications cable such as a telephone cable
  • a damaged part of the sheath or to retain pressurized gas within a cable sheath so as to prevent moisture entry
  • it is customary to provide water- and gas-tight blocks on each side of a damaged part, or at intervals along the pressurized cable, respectively, or where one cable is connected to another.
  • Such a block is made by stripping the cable sheaths to expose the insulated conductors, covering the exposed conductors with a mold, and injecting therein polymer-forming components which are to form the block; it is known to use polyethylene, but this has the disadvantages of long time needed for the process, or to use an epoxy resin, but this generates much heat in the curing which can melt the insulators of the conductors.
  • dam stopper e.g. of a putty or fibrous material
  • US-A-3,639,567 discloses a method of producing a gas-tight (and therefore water-tight) block inside a sheathed multiconductor cable on each side of an area where work is to be performed, by introducing into an aperture in the sheath of the cable a self-curing foaming polyurethane composition which comprises a polyisocyanate, an active hydrogen compound, a catalyst and water; the composition reacts to form polyurethane containing bubbles of carbon dioxide to expand the mixture to 5-25% of its original size.
  • the composition has a "pot life", i.e. is mobile for 5-30 minutes after it is mixed. There is however a problem in that the polyurethane does not adhere well to polyethylene insulation of the cables.
  • US-A-3955043 discloses a method of splicing two pieces of a monoconductor high voltage cable using a urethane resin foamed with a chlorfluoroalkane (CFC1 3 ). There is no suggestion of applying this to a multi conductor communication cable.
  • a method of producing a dam or block to prevent passage of moisture along the spaces between the conductors of a communication cable comprises stripping the sheat from a portion of the cable so as to expose the insulated conductors, forming a mold around the exposed portions of the conductors, mixing a self-curing polyurethane resin composition comprising a polyisocyanate and an active-hydrogen-containing compound, injecting the mixture into the mold, closing the mold and allowing the resin components to react and to generate a gaseous blowing agent which is under pressure in the closed mold and which foams the resin and causes the resin as it cures to be spread into the spaces between the insulated conductors along a length of the cable, and removing the mold to leave the gas- and water-impermeable dam or block of cured resin within the cable, characterized in that the composition contains as blowing agent a fluorochloroalkane which is vaporised at the temperature of said reaction and that the resin composition components are selected so that the time from mixing of the
  • said period until the composition becomes creamy is 30 to 45 seconds; the resin composition flows for a distance of 20 to 80 millimetres along the length of the cable, which does not prevent the necessary flexibility of the cable, although the pressure length depends on the nature of the cable; and the rise-off time, from begining of foaming until completion of foaming, is 55 to 130 seconds.
  • the preferred fluorochloroalkane is trichlorofluoromethane, CCI 3 F, which is a liquefiable gas, boiling at -23.7°C. It is known to use fluorochloro- carbons as foaming agents to make closed-cell foams in electrically insulating molded polymers, but not for the present purpose of producing a dam between the conductors of a communication cable.
  • CCI 3 F trichlorofluoromethane
  • fluorochloro- carbons as foaming agents to make closed-cell foams in electrically insulating molded polymers, but not for the present purpose of producing a dam between the conductors of a communication cable.
  • Other usable fluorochloroalkanes are CHCIF 2 , CCI 2 F 2 and CC1 2 FCC1 2 F 2 .
  • the resin composition is liquid when it is injected into the mold but is foamed and cured (hardens) rapidly in the mold.
  • the composition is usually made by mixing two parts, one comprising the isocyanate and the other containing the active hydrogen compound, e.g. one or more polyol, catalyst, and fluorochloroalkane.
  • the reaction generates heat which makes the blowing agent gaseous and foams the composition so that it appears "creamy"; the delay between the mixing of the parts of the resin composition and the exhibiting of the creamy state which the mixture begins to be foamed by the heat of the reaction is known as the "cream time" and can be determined by eye through a suitable glass container.
  • the foaming and curing rate is too high for the mixture to be adequately infiltrated between the conductors; and if it is more than 60 seconds then conversely the resin is intruded in a long length of the sheath and there is insufficient mixture in the mold and it is difficult to obtain adequate foaming pressure within the mold.
  • the viscosity of the mixture increases as curing proceeds.
  • the selection of the aforesaid cream time ensures good adhesion of the polyurethane to the insulation of the conductors, because the mixture is cured at an appropriate time after it has become intruded between the conductors for an adequate foaming pressure to force the polymer against the insulators.
  • a dam stopper or "interference" at the sheath ends of the cable, but if necessary, e.g. with a cable made up of a plurality of insulated units twisted together, with a relatively large gap between the units, a thin rod which may have a cotton head or similar stopper may be inserted in the gap.
  • the invention provides a gas-tight dam rapidly without the need usually for a dam stopper and thus productivity is much improved.
  • the drawing shows a communication cable 1 from which a portion of the sheath 3 has been stripped so as to expose the transmission members or conductors 4; these are shown as having been untwisted, which is desirable to assist penetration of the polymer composition between there (if the cable has only a few conductors, untwisting is not needed).
  • a mould 5 has been placed around the exposed conductors and the adjacent sheathed portions whereon the mold is tightly engaged; the mold is suitably made of metal and in two halves, in one of which is a central injections port 6.
  • the polyurethane resin composition 2 has been injected through the port 6 to fill the space in the mould; a cap 7 has been replaced over the port and the composition is allowed to be foamed and cured and to penetrate each sheathed portion of the cable to form a block therein.

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  • Casting Or Compression Moulding Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
EP81900952A 1980-04-15 1981-04-14 Method of making a dam for a communication cable Expired EP0050158B1 (en)

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JP49393/80 1980-04-15
JP4939380A JPS56156616A (en) 1980-04-15 1980-04-15 Method of manufacturing dam for communication cable

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EP0050158A1 EP0050158A1 (en) 1982-04-28
EP0050158A4 EP0050158A4 (en) 1983-02-14
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EP (1) EP0050158B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
JP (1) JPS56156616A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
WO (1) WO1981003085A1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)

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JPS56156616A (en) 1981-12-03
EP0050158A4 (en) 1983-02-14
US4461736A (en) 1984-07-24
EP0050158A1 (en) 1982-04-28
JPH0119204B2 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1989-04-11

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